Resettlement re-cap: a periodic report from the Cuban Refugee Center, June 1967

              SPONSOR CUBAN REFUGEES
Fulfill Their Faith in Freedom
JUNE  1967
RESETTLEMENT RE-CAP
FOR   ADMINISTRATIVE    USE
A PERIODIC REPORT FROM THE CUBAN REFUGEE CENTER — FREEDOM TOWER, MIAMI 32, FLORIDA
U.  S.   DEPARTMENT OF  HEALTH,  EDUCATION,  AND   WELFARE     —    WELFARE  ADMINISTRATION
U.S.  CUBAN   REFUGEE  PROGRAM JOHN FREDERICK THOMAS, Director, Washington, D. C.
HOWARD   H.   PALMATIER,   Assistant   Program   Director
ERROL T. BALLANFONTE, Director of Center HARRY   B.   LYFORD,  Editor
150,000th RESETTLEMENT ANOTHER HIGH POINT IN PROGRESS FOR U.S. CUBAN REFUGEE PROGRAM
Rate Of Acceptance Of Opportunities Away From Miami Is 76 Percent Of All Arrivals Since Dec 1,!65
As June arrived in this seventh year of the Cuban Refugee Program the 150,000 mark was reached and passed in
the total of persons resettled.  Resettlement means the acceptance by Cuban refugees of opportunities to start
new lives away from the Miami area -- opportunities provided by the Program and the four Voluntary Resettlement
Agencies coordinated by the government in working out resettlement details.  Refugees register with the Agency
of their choice -- U.S. Catholic Conference, International Rescue Committee, Church World Service, or United
HIAS Service.
Chosen for recognition by Agencies making resettlements at the time the 150,000 "milestone" was reached are
three families whose pictures appear on this page, together with facts about them.  Each family, with the counseling of its Agency, elected to go to a destination away from Miami, not necessarily to be with or near the
relatives who "claimed" them in the current family reunion phase of the Program.  Each family came by airlift.
REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLES OF FAMILIES
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES --
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE CASE -- FIVE GO TO BRIDGEPORT, CONN.
The Manuel Navarro family of five went to Bridgeport, Conn.,
sponsored by the Presbyterian Church, 36 Laurel Avenue, Rev.
Showalter, pastor. Arrangements were made through the United
Presbyterian Resettlement Committee. Both Mr. Navarro, aged
38, and wife, Ines, aged 26, attended normal school and taught
in Cuba and have an interest in teaching after further training in this country. The relative who claimed them is in educational training in New York and is encouraging them to improve their English. Both are willing to do any kind of work
pending educational training. Their children are 3, 4 and 5
years old.
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE CASE -- SIX GO TO LOS ANGELES
The Antonio Alvarez Machado family tried  life in Miami,  but
eventually decided to consult their Voluntary Resettlement
agency about a resettlement opportunity.   Now they have left
for Los Angeles where arrangements were made for them to have
a house and job interviews intended to place both Mr. and Mrs.
Machado in earning positions soon.  Mr. Machado in Cuba was a
painter and fumigator and anticipated no trouble in continuing
in one or both of these fields.  Going with them and the three
children are Mr. Machado's aunt, Miss Consuelo Aguiar, aged 59,
who helps with the children, aged 4, 8, and 9.   Personnel of
the IRC office in Los Angeles met the Machados at the airport
and are of service during their adjustment period.
Commenting on the acceptance of opportunities provided for
refugees by people throughout the country, both Americans and
Cubans helping Cubans, Program Director John F. Thomas said:
"The rate of resettlement away from Miami is running at 69
percent of airlift arrivals and 76 percent of all arrivals since
December 1, 1965.  It is of interest to note that of the 125,000
Cuban refugees estimated to be in Dade county (Miami), fewer than
17,000 are now qualified to receive federal financial assistance,
compared with nearly 70,000 persons in late 1962 and early 1963.
Those qualifying for financial assistance are chiefly the elderly,
those in poor health and minors -- in other words, the unemploy-
ables.  All other Cuban refugees in Miami,  it must be assumed,
are living on the income from jobs they have been offered there,
or from the income of businesses they have established."
Late figures of the Program are on Page 2. Total registrations
at the Center since its opening in early 1961 are above 246,000.
Distribution records show that Cuban refugees have gone to all 50
states and to more than 2,100 communities.  New York state,  New
Jersey, California
and Illinois continue to record
the highest number
of refugees.
MORE COURSES
Fifty Cuban refugees from Miami
have been chosen
to study in professional training
courses at Fair-
lei gh- Dickinson
Uni ver s i ty,  New
Jersey; College of
Mount St. Mary,
Los Angeles;  and
Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia.  Courses for
physicians and
teachers also continue at the University of Miami.
U.S. CATHOLIC CONFERENCE CASE -- NINE GO TO NEWARK, N.J.
Angel Leal, wife, Dulce, both 33, five children, his mother,
Mrs. Alida Leal, 60, and her sister, Eudora Gonzalez, 59, had
opportunities offered in Miami, but their decision, after
counseling by their Agency, was to go to Newark, N.J. Two
apartments awaited them, and job interviews were arranged by
Catholic resettlement representatives. Mr. Leal is a technician in handling of glass and had his own business in Cuba.
Mrs. Leal is a seamstress and has taught sewing. The children will have the attentions of their grandmother and great
aunt while the parents work. Their relative "claimant" is in
the New York area but was not in a position to assume responsibility for them.